books.google.com - In a desperate attempt to bring the North to the bargaining table and end what was to the South a losing war, Confederate spies in Canada launch a plot to burn New York City on the day after Thanksgiving in 1864. A group of rebel officers, escapees from Union prison camps who had fled to neutral Canada...https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Man_Who_Tried_to_Burn_New_York.html?id=M3R8Iy5aqkMC&q=turned&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Man Who Tried to Burn New York